Suzan and I are now officially leaving Hannover to see R.E.M. live tonight in Berlin (Waldbühne)!

Tomorrow, we’re heading towards Dresden where we stay until Saturday.

We might even stop by in Leipzig on our way back.

I am gonna blog about our short trip when we’re back.

I just tried to update XAMPP for Windows to version 1.6.7, using the installer version.

Somehow, it did not work without removing the old version first: Apache changed status to “Running”, then suddenly stopped again. There was no way I could access the admin panel. Same happened with MySQL.

After removing the old version, Apache started (as did MySQL), but clicking on “Admin…” resulted in a “500 Internal Server Error”.

Here is the (pretty simple) solution:
An old .htaccess still remained in “…/XAMPP/htdocs/xampp/” which delivered the error. Deleting it did the trick.

And here is a reminder for me:
Permalinks don’t work by default in XAMPP because ModRewrite is not loaded… open “…/XAMPP/apache/conf/httpd.conf” and remove the “#” before LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so… stupid!

Right from the beginning, I spelled this nice blogging software I use “Wordpress” with a small “p”. The more I searched the internet for blogging-related stuff, I came across the correct spelling “WordPress” with a capital “P”. That was already a long time ago. But as I had also already written a few posts that I didn’t want to change (which I wouldn’t have known how to do at that point, anyway - even if I had wanted to), I continued spelling it in the wrong way - at least, I am pretty persistent when it comes to continuity.

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As of today, WordPress 2.6 “Tyner” is available for download on wordpress.org.

It comes with

• wiki-like tracking of edits,
• a powerful “Press This!” bookmark,
• support for Google Gears,
• theme previews,
• word count,
• image captions,
• etc. pp.

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Puh, nochmal Glück gehabt!